For example, I thought about what smug little wangs the College Republicans at U.C. Berkeley are! I also wondered why this irritating little stunt—a standard-issue bit of thought-provoking College Republican satire—is getting national press this year, instead of being rightly ignored, as it usually is. (The answer seems to be SB185, a new bill that "would add race and ethnicity to factors universities can weigh when considering prospective students," essentially overturning voter-approved Prop. 209, which banned affirmative action in the U.C. system in 1996.)

In any event, it went basically exactly how you'd expect:

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Chris Maldonado, a chemical engineering student, paid $1 for a green frosted cupcake. "I'm Hispanic, so I'll pay a dollar," he said. "I'm the son of two poor immigrants from Guatemala. Yes, there exists a disadvantage, but if you put the emphasis on education, you will get an education. Me and my two brothers are proof of that."